Vienna Police Arrest Nazi Who ‘liquidated’ Jews in Poland

Download PDF for this date

February 1, 1961

VIENNA (Jan. 31)

Vienna police announced today the arrest of Former SS Colonel Hermann Hoeffle in Salzburg. According to documents at the German Ludwigsburg Center, Hoeffle played a major role in the liquidation of the Jews of Poland, especially those in Lublin and Warsaw.

Sign up for JTA's Daily Briefing, your daily guide to the latest essential news in the Jewish world »

Founding Funders

The digitization of the JTA Archive would not have been possible without the generous support of the following donors:

The Gottesman Fund
Righteous Persons Foundation
Charles H. Revson Foundation

Elisa Spungen Bildner and Robert Bildner, in honor of Norma Spungen
George S. Blumenthal
Grace and Scott Offen Charitable Fund